Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-30
THEY GET NO REST.
City TOilerS Who Work Seven
Days in q Week.
An Army of Men at Work for the
Surface RailrOadS-Seyen
Day Men Ofthe Big Apart
ment HOuses-The
Type-setters.

How many men in the city of New
York work seven days in the week reg
ularly, ccasi"g only for day or more
when failing health or some other cause
outside Of personal inclinations or the
rules Of their employees compel it? The
careful estimates Of number Of men
connected with various organizations
and guilds Of wage workers place the
proportion at one fourth Of all. To
hcgiu With the kinds of employment
,,".t famiiiar to the general public, We
have the thousands of employees of the
elevated railroads. They work seven
days whether they will or not, or leave
their jobs. A great many of them,
however, prefer to take only an occa-
sional days liberty, and would not
welcome different rule.
The surface roads of the city employ
another army of men who work every
day in the week. Drivers, conductors,
stablemen, and starters may be found
at their posts usually not less than $50
days in the year. The bosses say that
plenty of substitutes are on hand, and
that nothing prevents man taking a
day off regularly and keep his place.
Besides, wages are not so high that
many men live and raise families on
less than $l4 week, they say.
There are other drivers than those on
street cars who work seven days in the
week, such as the cabmen, liverymen
and private coachmen of the city. To
these might be added the footmen and
other male servants kept about the
houses of the we'll to do. If there is
any day in the year that these do not
have work to do it Is an extraordinary
occasion. On Sunday, when perhaps
majority Of the population cease from
their daily toll: these servants have to
work harder than any other day.
THE SERVANT DAY OUT.
1t Ii true that every servant is sup
posed to have day out, but this usu-
ally means few hours out on Thurs
day afternoon. With servants gen
orally the rule is long hours and low
pay. Walters IN hotels and restaurants
keep right along as long as health per-
mits. Cooks, porters and men of all
work employed about these establish
mcnts, and some of the we'll dressed
clerks as we'll, can be found day in and
day out at their tasks. Every hotel
has its night Waterman. So, too, a
great many business houses employ
the same class of men. Every ship at
the pier has its Waterman. Every new
building, while unfinished, must have
its Waterman, and he is generally kept
about the new house until it is occu-
pied. Night or day, and sometimes
both, he is on hand for seven DAYS in
the week, and he is lucky if he gets
1915 for his long vigil: the usual
price is 81 a day.
The big apartment houses have de-
veloped class Of seven day men, in
Guiding jan'tors, elevator and hall boys,
and engineers and 6remcn. Every
apartment house must have all of these,
and they work right along, Sunday and
all. In the down town Office buildings
the work gives the janitors Sunday
rest as rule, but there is usually a
bit of tinkering and cleaning to be
done, after all, on Sunday.
Many tradcsmen, of course, must
work on Sunday, and some of them
work harder then than on any other
day. The avenue groceries usually
stretch the pencil code limit of 10 O.
clock on Sunday to II. and the meat
markets do the same. Fish markets
are open, too. The milkman's curious
whoop warns the housemaid to come
out with her pitcher on Sunday as we'll
as on other days. The baker delivers
his hot rolls anu the ice cream man his
frozen dclicacy. The delicatessen man
with his smoked and canned and cooked
things is behind his counter on every
day. and in many cases for fourteen
hours every day. The candy store is
always open, and so is the cigar store,
although cigars were not contemplated
as an article Of diet or necessity by the
frames If the penal code. There is
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